Word: levelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese and the U.S. would have little to say in any village arrangements honestly arrived at. Indeed, as agreements were reached, all foreigners might well be asked to leave the areas involved. Thus a system based on this new oil-spot theory might work to gradually lower the level of violence. It would have the liability of confirming Viet Cong control in areas they already own. By the same token, the government would have its rule in clearly held areas validated. And as Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the department of government at Harvard, points out in the current...
...eruption, another 80,000 were ordered slaughtered for immediate sale and a further 100,000 had to be moved to new pasture lands. Experts estimated that if there were further intense eruptions, it might take 20 years and $50 million to restore cattle raising to its pre-eruption level. At week's end, Arenal was rumbling ominously again and a team of volcanologists went to the scene from Washington, hopeful of determining the reason for the eruption and devising methods to prevent further blowoffs...
...further strengthen Biafra's hand in Addis, Ojukwu unilaterally declared a cease-fire while the talks are in progress: the Biafrans would launch no new attacks and only fire when fired upon. With the Nigerians aggressively on the move, that is not likely to reduce the level of violence much. But it will improve Biafra's image with the representatives of the Organization of African Unity, who are sponsoring the peace talks, and perhaps ultimately bring African pressure on Lagos to follow suit...
Villain Amplifiers. From industrial and military experience, the experts set certain standards for safety. Any prolonged exposure to a noise level above 85 decibels will eventually result in a loss of hearing acuity for sounds in the frequency range most important for understanding human speech. This range is roughly from 256 cycles per second, the pitch of middle C, to about 2,000 c.p.s., or the C three octaves higher. Acuity is impaired even earlier for higher pitches, such as violin overtones...
...investigators went to the dance hall, and found the average sound intensity to be 106 to 108 db in the middle of the dance floor. Directly in front of the band it peaked to 120 db. The test crew had to move 40 feet outside the building before the level dropped to a safe but still uncomfortable...